Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
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If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It's normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it's cool.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
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If you're trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain things don't, at the end of the day, it comes down to the issue of incentives: We do what we're incentivized to do.
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The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
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After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.
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I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.
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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
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For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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I'm just so happy to see my friends and fans in Taiwan, 'cause that's where I'm from.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
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I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.
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I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
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I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.
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The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.
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I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.
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A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.
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I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.
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Focus on the roses: 'A person who gathers honey will not escape being stung by bees. A person who gathers roses will not escape being scratched by thorns.' The positive things in life also have negative aspects. Keep your focus on the beautiful roses of the world, and the thorns will seem trivial and inconsequential.
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From my youngest brother to immigrant women to black queer folks, those are the people who keep me going. When I think about their various acts of courage, it reminds me that I am not alone and that we can do even more, and we deserve more, so we have to keep going.
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Believe in your potential, not your past.
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I love to deliver orgasms to the masses!
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
